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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git push (mis ?)behavior
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:27:49 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:

>   2. "push all branches" is the default, but the user intended to push
>      only the current branch. She ends up pushing a superset of what
>      she wanted, which is not easily fixed if she can't be sure that
>      no one else has pulled from the public repo before she notices
>      what's happened.

But that is not the default.  Not at all.

The default is to push the refs which the remote and the local side have 
_in common_.

Maybe we should initialise the "remote.origin.push" variable to 
"completely-bogus-branchname" when you "git init --im-a-newbie"?

Ciao,
Dscho